Knitting Peeves?

Hi Da,

How about making all the nieces and nephews pullover vests,each with a different Mary Maxim design on it and they put them on so you could see them in them and that was the last time they wore them.

Hugs,

Nora

A skein with its end buried so deep in its center that you end up pulling half the yarn out looking for it.

Mine is when people assume that I knit because I don't have a life. The nerve! Or they assume that knitting is the same as doing nothing!

Katherine

Oh, I hate that!

Katherine

My knitting peeve is when someone says I can buy that at Walmart/Zellers or when they are willing to pay hardly anything for a homemade item.

Darlene in Toronto

Without a doubt, those buried ends are the biggest annoyance I can think of.

Stephanie Pearl McPhee has the answer for that one. Roughly paraphrased: Even if it's the same pattern in the same yarn in the same color, my sweater is way better, because I made it. "This sweater exists only because I am a clever, determined, vital knitter, with stick-to-itiveness and an ability to follow through." (p.239 _At Knit's End_)

=Tamar

Change I knit with I crochet and I subscribe to that! Grrrrr....

Hugs,

Anna Maria

That happens all the time at my house. I knitted a sweater for the DH(who will only wear black/grey or shades of brown) out of Noro Kureyon. He put it on to wear to the office and that is the last time I have seen the sweater, this was 2 years ago. Now I spend the time knitting for myself DA

I don't bother to say anything, the idea that some one could actually knit a sweater is an alien concept to this sort of person. DA

Up until recently I never knit for myself but it is turning now. I appreciate the pieces so much and am learning that others seldom do. I guess you have to love the yarns to enjoy them. barbara

nodding in wholehearted agreement. Same people cannot fathom someone knitting socks, either. JM2C Noreen

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OK, you knit a lot... well, you don't have children at home.. I can see they think: What shall she do when the house is perfectly clean and there are no more mess anywhere?? Knitting is relaxing, she can let the brain sleep!

And *I* think: Don't visit me, because I have mess, dust and untidiness around me, I am SO eager to see if the pattern I constructed and calkulated really works!

AUD ;-))

Are these the same people who sit and stare at mind-numbing TV shows? There are shows which I enjoy, but sitting down to watch one is also my knitting time. DA

I ditto the one about the hidden end in a ball of yarn. All of the time wasted digging and rewinding instead of getting started!

But my biggest peeve....

patterns that have CHARTS instead of WORDS!!!!

There, I've said it!

lol

Nyssa, who still hasn't finished the Socks from Hell At River's End

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... opposit for me! I am so happy if I can follow a chart! LOL! AUD ;-)

I think that a while back we had a discussion about the chunk of yarn that comes out when trying to find the end. I think that someone suggested yarn barf, lol, and I thought that was funny. So now each time I look for the end of the yarn, I think of that phrase and I laugh. It makes it less frustrating!

I rarely make anything for anyone anymore unless they ask. I find that many people do not appreciate hand made items. My DD is alway excited about anything I make for her, so she is the recipient of many things I have made recently.

My pet peeve is frogging. I absolutely hate to frog even thought I seem to have to do it a lot! Sometimes I crochet when my mind is elsewhere and then before I know it, I have done a few wrong stitches, shortened a row, whatever! But, frog I must. I don't like to finish something that has a lot of mistakes in it. That's just me.

Diane

My mother, who was one of the best knitters in the world, never understood why I loved knitting socks. My father, however, used to knit socks, and he understood perfectly.

Katherine

And I agree!!!

Katherine